As makes it to compassionate, and tell
By looking pale, the wearer is not well.
Sir Francis Kynaston, To Cynthia.
Saintsbury, Caroline Poets, ii. 161.
Page 251, ll. 9-18. The source of this simile is probably Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, III. 642-56.
Falciferos memorant currus abscidere membra
Saepe ita de subito permixta caede calentis,
Ut tremere in terra videatur ab artubus id quod
Decidit abscisum, cum mens tamen atque hominis vis
Mobilitate mali non quit sentire dolorem;